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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 26161729, member: 130786&quot;]I lived in Jamaica for 2 years &amp; only managed to keep a ratty $20 at the last minute.&nbsp; I had rules back then (in 1995) &amp; one of them was that I didn&#039;t collect World (only CAD) which seems absurd now. But I was paid super low wages &amp; had to fight tooth &amp; nail to get the $ that my employer owed me.</p><p><br /></p><p>We collect according to what we can afford. Try to remember the context (when you were in Guatemala). The most common UNC notes I came across were the $500 (or $100 Jamaican note). Both of these I needed for groceries or taxi fares back in Kingston (95 &amp; 96).&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t the safest city to get around in.&nbsp; I was &quot;living pay-check to pay-check&quot; but if money was easier back then, I&#039;d probably have kept a few UNC $100.</p><p><br /></p><p>I came across the following denominations low denominations once at a bar where a couple of ratty examples were in a tip tray. The bar tender didn&#039;t mind me examining them as they were worth cents ($34 JD = $1 USD). I remember looking at them &amp; thinking I would love to pick up a few nice ones (as souvenirs) someday.&nbsp; When I started collecting World about 10 years ago, these were super cheap so I put off buying.&nbsp; Since then, their prices have steadily krept up so that the $5.00 now can be nearly $10 USD (even though it is quite common according to Numista). The only cheap one is the $2.00. I still need the 50 Cents note which I never saw while there.[ATTACH=full]1670224[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1670225[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1670226[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1670227[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing is: very few services/retail outlets allowed VISA (or plastic) back then. Cash was worn out much quicker in hot, humid Caribbean (Central American countries) countries where &quot;cash was king.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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